You should be, they won a division featuring the defending Super Bowl champions and finished the regular season atop the NFC. The Falcons play an efficient brand of football and don’t kill themselves with penalties or turnovers.

Sound much like the Detroit Lions? Maybe not, but there may be more similarities than appear at first.

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I spent a good part of last week digging into some numbers to try to find proof for or against the opinion that the Lions are making progress despite what their record may indicate (read this and this if you missed it).

I tried to remain unbiased and let the data make the conclusions rather than interjecting my own opinion. My time for impartiality is over: This Lions team is vastly improved.

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